Like the ocean is your god-self;

It remains for ever undefiled.

And like the ether it lifts but the winged.

Even like the sun is your god-self;

It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent.

But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being.

Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man,

But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.

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The Prophet
Page 40-41
Published by Alfred A. Knopf
Published in New York
Published in 1992
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Contribution #1829
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

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The essence of education is not to stuff you full of facts, but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then show you how to give it away.

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By exhaustively examining one's own mind,
one may understand his nature.
One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

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We are slaves of what we don't know;
of what we know we are masters.
Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discover
and understand its cause and workings,
we overcome it by the very knowing.
The primary purpose of meditation is to become more conscious
and familiar with our inner life.
The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life.

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The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. 
These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

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Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.

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Bateson, Mary Catherine
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Contribution #584
He who knows others is wise. 
He who knows himself is enlightened.

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If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn of the vast and endless sea.

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Antoine de Saint Exupery
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Contribution #1042
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

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Bennett, Arnold
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Contribution #459
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

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Rosten, Leo
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Contribution #458
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

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Repplier , Agnes
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Contribution #457